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I am a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah, where I’m a member of the Flux Research Group. My research interests lie in the broad areas of security, privacy, and internet measurement. I focus on developing new tools and techniques to advance the understanding of security and privacy issues through internet measurement.

My research is advised by Prof. Robert Ricci at the University of Utah. I closely collaborate with Prof. Alex Gamero-Garrido, University of California, Davis, Prof. Kevin Borgolte, Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Germany and Prof. Sandra Siby, New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD).

I am currently a Pulse Research Fellow (2025), supported by the Internet Society to study IPv6 deployment. Previously, I had the privilege of being a Fellow at the EPFL Summer Research Institute (SuRI 2023), was a part of the Georgia Tech’s Second Annual Cybersecurity Summer Institute cohort and a pre-doctoral fellow at Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-doctoral Research School (CMMRS 2022).

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News

04/2025 : Attending ACM WWW in Sydney, Australia. Got to visit the Sydney Cricket Ground!

03/2025 : "Empirically Measuring Data Localization in the EU" got accepted at PETS 2025.

08/2024 : Wrapped up my internship at Softsec Lab Ruhr University Bochum! Looking forward to continuing our project.

05/2024 : Started Research Intern at Softsec Lab Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. Advised by Prof. Kevin Borgolte.

04/2024 : Gave my first paper talk at 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, Santa Clara, CA, USA.

12/2023 : "Where The Wild Things Are: Brute-Force SSH Attacks In The Wild And How To Stop Them" got accepted at NSDI 24.

07/2023 : Attending 23rd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium Lausanne. Excited for my first PETS.

07/2023 : Attending Summer Research Institute 2023 on Security and Privacy, EPFL, Switzerland.

06/2023 : Awarded Student Travel Grant for PETs 2023 at Lausanne, Switzerland.

05/2023 : Awarded Fellowship for the Second Annual Cybersecurity Summer Institute, Georgia Tech., Atlanta.

04/2023 : Awarded Ph.D. Fellowship for Summer Research Institute (SuRI), EPFL.

08/2022 : Attending the Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-doctoral Research School 2022 on Emerging Research Trends in Computer Science, August 1-6, 2022, Saarbrücken, Germany.

Publications

Empirically Measuring Data Localization in the EU

Alexander Gamero-Garrido, Kicho Yu, Sumukh, Sachin Kumar Singh, Sindhya Balasubramanian, Alexander Wilcox and David Choffnes. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETS) 2025, Washington, DC, USA.

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Where The Wild Things Are: Brute-Force SSH Attacks In The Wild And How To Stop Them

Sachin Kumar Singh, Shreeman Gautam, Cameron Cartier, Sameer Patil and Robert Ricci. 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), April 2024.

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Services

Program Committee

  • 2026: ACM IMC 2025 Shadow TPC, Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS)
  • 2025: CPSIoTSec (co-located with ACM CCS’25), PETS, WTMC (co-located with EuroS&P’25)
  • 2024: CPSIoTSec (co-located with ACM CCS’24), WTMC (co-located with EuroS&P’24)

Artifact Evaluation Committee

  • 2025: USENIX OSDI
  • 2024: NDSS, USENIX Security Symposium, ACM SIGCOMM
  • 2023: EuroSys, WOOT (co-located with IEEE S&P), ACM CCS, USENIX Security Symposium

Volunteer

  • 2022: ACM Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS), Los Angeles

Travel

2022: Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, France.

2023: Switzerland, Italy, France.

2024: Japan, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Croatia, Spain.

2025: Australia, Germany, Denmark.